BRATTLEBORO — Only a short time remains to see ” Flora: A Celebration of Flowers in Contemporary Art ” and three other exhibits at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.
Besides “Flora,” “Opposing Forces: New Paintings by John Gibson"; Walter Ungerer's “All the Days of the Year"; and “Cloaked and Revealed: Sculptural Paintings by Marela Zacarias” end Sunday, June 22. After that, the museum will close for five days, reopening Friday, June 27, at 5:30 p.m., with five new exhibits.
An exuberant and colorful show featuring work by 13 artists, “Flora” refreshingly ushered in spring after Vermont's long, hard winter. The exhibit includes paintings, prints, sculpture, photography, and video art reflecting the bounty and variety of nature in bloom.
Smith College art professor John Gibson's “Opposing Forces” offers new paintings of balls, his signature motif for over 25 years. Adorned with colored dots, stripes, or patterns and sitting singly or resting in a line or pile against an abstracted background, the painted balls project a striking presence. Gibson's stated aim is to convincingly render these three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface.
For ” All the Days of the Year ,” renowned experimental filmmaker Walter Ungerer placed a video camera on top of a hill above a village on the Maine coast. By recording an entire 360-degree arc each day for a year - through changing weather and seasons - Ungerer reveals the beauty in an everyday place.
Marela Zacarias, the Mexican-born multimedia artist of ” Cloaked and Revealed ” makes her sculptural paintings from window screen, which she forms into undulating abstract shapes and then paints. In patterns and colors suggesting world textiles and historic murals of Mexico and Depression-era New York City, her works often take on meaning drawn from specific sites and their histories and social contexts.
For more information call 802-257-0124 or visit www.brattleboromuseum.org.